Oct 13, 2014

A quick and easy chili made with ground turkey, sweet potatoes and spices – the perfect weeknight meal. It has just the right amount of spice to compliment the sweet potatoes without being too spicy for those of you who prefer a milder chili (you can of course bump up the heat if you wish).

This is one of my favorite chili recipes which I came up with last year. Since it's chili weather now I thought I'd revive it from the archives.

I served this with some sweet potato chips which I found in the grocery store
and set out some chopped cilantro, scallions, sour cream and cheddar on the side as optional
toppings. Because this has no beans, it's perfect for picky eaters (my youngest daughter is not a fan) and it's also gluten-free and Paleo-friendly. This will be a part of my regular rotation, I highly recommend this one… enjoy!!No Bean Turkey and Sweet Potato ChiliSkinnytaste.com
Servings: 5 • Serving Size: 1 cup • Old Points: 5 • Weight Watchers Points+: 6 pts
Calories: 235 • Fat: 8 g • Carb: 14 g • Fiber: 2 g • Protein: 23 g • Sugar: 4 g
Cholesterol: 81 mg • Sodium: 578 mg (without salt)

Ingredients:

20 oz 93% lean ground turkey

kosher salt, to taste

1/2 cup onion, chopped

3 cloves garlic, crushed

10 oz can Rotel mild tomatoes with green chilies

8 oz can tomato sauce

3/4 cup water

1/2 tsp cumin, or to taste

1/4 tsp chili powder

1/4 tsp paprika

1 bay leaf

1 medium sweet potato, peeled and diced into 1/2-inch cubes

fresh cilantro, for garnish

Directions:

In a large skillet, brown turkey over medium-high heat, breaking it up as it cooks into smaller pieces and season with salt and cumin.

Rotel tomatoes are a tin of diced tomatoes with diced green chillies. The result is spicy diced tomatoes. You can probably make your own by dicing the veg, adding water and salt, and letting them sit in the fridge for a day or two.

The only ground meat around here is beef, venison, or pork--is there really that much difference between ground turkey and drained ground beef? My parents butcher their own cattle, so we get whatever mix they grind it at--probably 80/20. I was just curious, since I've noticed that a lot of your recipes use ground turkey and I'd never heard of it before I started reading this site and still have yet to see any.

Anyway, I'm seriously considering this for supper in the very near future--how could I not?! You had me at "no bean" and "sweet potato". ;-)

Thanks! Since it sounds like ground beef is higher in iron (and I'm always low on that since I can't keep the supplements down), I'm just going to stick with beef. Plus, I know where my beef comes from!

I am so glad you posted this recipe Gina! I love chili but beans and I just don't do well and I've been trying to figure out how to fill out chili without beans as just meat seems like too much meat to me. I don't know how long it would have taken me to come up with sweet potatoes or squash on my own. Thanks so much!!

I made this last night... and as I stated yesterday.. I added beans (red kidney) . Also sauteed green, red, yellow peppers and jalapeno and serano peppers for added color/flavor. AND I did a little something extra. I roasted the sweet potatoes in oven for 30 minutes (cubed). They were seasoned with oil, chipolte chili powder and salt. This is soo good! and will be good with black beans as well..

Made this dish this afternoon -- and it was delicious!! My husband was a bit skeptical at first, but after bite #1 he was a fan. This one will go into our regular rotation. It is especially nice that you get big flavor w/o a long cook time!

This was awesome! I kicked the spices up a notch, because I'm a fan of heat. Such wonderful flavor. Plus, the sweet potatoes were a wonderful touch. Never would have thought they would meld so well with the other flavors in the chili. Definitely cannot wait to have some for lunch tomorrow!

made this last night and my whole family loved it! The sweet potato substitution was a hit. Everyone agreed they preferred it over the beans. I don't mind the beans in my chili but now it will be hard to go back to doing it any other way. By the way, not sure if it was intentional or not but I see your reflection on the spoon in the photo above. Kinda cute since it's you upside down;-)))

We made this last night for dinner, and it was really good. My husband said a couple of times how much he enjoyed it. We'll definitely be keeping this recipe handy for many more nights this fall and winter. I think we'll mix in black beans next time to mix it up! and then maybe try other variations after that.

I made this last night and both myself and my husband absolutely LOVED it!!! I used butternut squash instead of sweet potato which I roasted before adding it to the chili, I added some sauteed chopped red pepper and I replaced the tomato sauce and water with salsa. Soooo yummy, can't wait for the leftovers tonight. I love your recipes!

I made this recipe tonight and it was amazing. Made exactly as the recipe. Wow - so easy and so so good. I topped mine with Trader Joes Kale and Yogurt dip, and my Mom used sour cream, and my husband topped with crackers. all amazing.

I made this tonight and added a can of Ranch Style Beans. It is absolutely delicious! I have added you to my Pinterest and also my Google+. Your recipes are wonderful and I am enjoying preparing them for myself and my family.

Just made this for dinner tonight and it was absolutely delicious! I added some cayenne pepper instead of chili powder to kick up the spice factor even more and it was amazing. Thanks for sharing this!

Made this tonight & it was (is!) SOOOO good!! I put in more diced tomatoes & tomato sauce than i meant to, so i ended up adding an extra sweet potato & some ground beef. DELISH! My husband keeps on saying how good this is! I never imagined sweet potatoes in chili, but - YUM!!! :) Thank you!!!!

I just made this last night for my boyfriend and I. I did find myself adding more spices and salt that was called for (that may be because the tomato sauce and tomatoes I bought did not have salt), but it was sooo good! Hit the spot on a cold night! My boyfriend never had chili before and he thought it was good! We ate it with toasted bread but this would be great with tortilla chips or rice too!

I wrote a comment but it disappeared!I made this in the slow cooker. Substituted a 28 oz can of crushed tomatoes for the canned tomatoes and sauce (it's what I had in the cupboard!). I also added some diced yellow, orange, and red peppers and bumped up the amount of chili powder a little. Spooned it over a serving of Zoodles...I know that may sound odd but it was great! Thanks! Will make again!

Made this for dinner tonight & it was delicious. I used lean ground beef instead of ground turkey, added a can of black beans & used a little curry powder instead of ground cumin the chili was Fantastic!!!! I will definitely make this again and again.

Hi, I'm making this right now, it's simmering on the stove, smell great! One thing though, the directions say twice to add the salt and cumin, but the ingredient list doesn't divide them. Should they go in at the beginning with the ground turkey browning or at the end with all the other ingredients?

I think you just season the meat with a little salt and cumin to taste in the beginning, then add the measured amounts when you are cooking everything. At least, it turned out good when we did it this way! :-)

Made this for dinner last night and it was SO good! I used ground beef instead of turkey just because it's cheaper. Next time I will add an extra sweet potato! Can't wait to eat my leftovers today for lunch!

I made this with my husband last night. He doesn't care for sweet potatoes but he took a second helping after having his first bowl! We added black beans too. Everything I've ever made from Skinnytaste is a hit! I can't wait for the release of your cookbook. I'm going to gift it to every woman I know!

Made this tonight and it was great! Question though, did you use a yam vs. A sweet potato? I bought an actual sweet potato so my chunks are white, whereas yours are orange like a yam. They are often interchanged even though they are distinctly different, so I was wondering if it changed the flavor or consistency.

This has become such a staple in our house. My beef-eating, skeptical-over-each-new-recipe-I-try husband loves it and says it's the best thing I've ever made! I tripled the recipe this weekend so we could eat on it all week. Thanks, Gina!

This chili is amazing, Gina! I've made so very many of your recipes and loved them. I actually entered this one in my school's chili contest last Monday (I'm an English teacher) and won runner up. Thanks!

This was dinner last night and will be lunch today. It's delicious. It goes together very quickly. At my daughter's suggestion--and because I had them to use up--I sauteed about 1 1/2 cups sliced mushrooms with the onions. Topped with sliced radishes for some zip and crunch--a skinny swap for chips I learned a while ago! This was just the thing for the single digit temperatures we are currently having!

Thank you for sharing the recipe...it's delicious, and my husband LOVED it (I didn't tell him that there were sweet potatoes in it, since he thinks he "hates sweet potato"!) I kicked it up a bit with the addition of diced fresh jalapeno and I doubled the spices. mmmm goood...I'm making a second batch now since we loved it so much. thank you :)

Thank you for this recipe! I made it tonight with a few substitutions and it was delicious on this cold winter night. I used 14oz can crushed tomatoes instead of rotel and tomato sauce, added small can of diced green chiles, and one deseeded jalapeno, topped with plain nonfat Greek yogurt, avocado, and hot sauce. Will definitely make again!

This has entered the regular rotation at my house. I can't stand beans, so it's nice to find something with a "filler" other than beans. My husband normally doesn't care for sweet potatoes, but he'll eat them in this since the absorb the spices and don't taste "sweet".

I'll call this a perfect adult chili, as neither of my kids were fans of this (which made dinner less enjoyable with "why are there potatoes in my chili??"), but my husband and I LOVED it last year! Was the perfect fall lunch- or highly recommend for families with more adventurous children haha.

Thanks - this looks great! Do you think it would work out well in the slow cooker? If so, any suggestions for cook time? I do crockpot meals every Tuesday so would be great to have another to add to my rotation. Thanks for all of your great recipes!

I made this last night and loved it! It was the perfect end to a blustery day, and such an easy weeknight meal. Though, I could not find Ro-tel anywhere at my usual Manhattan grocery spots, so I subbed for a 10 oz. can of Petite Cut Diced Tomatoes with Jalapeños and Cilantro and it turned out great. Thanks!

Love all of your recipes! We have just discovered that my husband is allergic to tomatoes....yikes! Is there anything you can offer as a replacement in this recipe? Thanks in advance for any suggestions you can give me!

Thank you for this recipe! My husband and daughter love your 3 bean turkey chili but my son doesn't go for beans, so this one is amazing! Everyone likes it, it is wonderful for leftovers. I have made a 3 double batches of it this month and it disappears in days! I've made it in the crockpot and on the stove, both work. I was out of rotel tomatoes in the pantry so I subbed diced tomatoes and diced green chiles, that worked. The only thing I added was a dash of nutmeg because I love the way the flavor with sweet potatoes and turkey.